Posts Tagged ‘Medicaid’

In taking a closer look at the new ObamaCare healthcare initiative (which kicks in completely by 2014) you’ll find a number of new agencies, new acronyms and new bureaucracies that have been created to manage and implement the act. It looks to me like the Federal Government is moving quickly to manage, administer and control most of the healthcare dollars. With 20% of our GDP made up by healthcare and another 24% going towards the Federal bureaucracy it looks like the government is taking a much more active role in your life.

American business is cautious as to what the full impact of Obamacare will mean to their bottom lines. When business is uncertain, they wait. This lingering recession has a lot to do with uncertainty coming out of Washington. With trillions on the side lines the business sector hasn’t jumped in to restart the hiring process.

Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) – a mechanism to balance out payments to hospitals that help them cover uncompensated care. Eventually that states commitment to uncompensated will be covered by the state.